The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-10-11


The COFFEE Cur AS DETEoTIvE-A
HORRIBLE MURDER DISCOVERED THERE
BY.
Sunday evening the police department
was thrown into considerable excitement
by bund e of under-c clothing brought to
headquarters which indicated very
strongly that something terrible had
happened. The bundle Was found in
South Asheville, carefully hid away
under q brush-heap. 1t consisted of
underShl1t and drawers. The undershirt
had large blood-spot on the place which
usually protects the heart, and a hole
was there which bore every appearance
of having been made by knife All
Sunday evening and night the police
were on the qIi UjUe expecting furthe er
clue. Yesterday morning, however, the
thundeTbOlt OF terrible affair struck
fairly and squarely upon the police; the
Chief was notified that the body of
dead man had been found secreted in
! the bushes near the locality where the
aforesaid under-clothiHg had been found
Chief Waddell assumed d proper solem-
nifty, and gave orders to policemen
Deaver and Smith in the regulation
whisper. With all due solem eitv the
worthy sheriff of the county was notified
and requested to accompany the party to
the sanguinary field of strife and homi-
eide. All following the informant, pro-
ceeded; and not word was said on the
way. The scene of death which was
soon to be unfolded to them had its pro-
| per effect upon even the hardened min
ions of the law" The point was reach
ed. rhe field was coveled with piles of
| dead brush, just the place of all others
any man with Yillainous intent would
select to commit a diabOlical dead. The
informant, young man whose high in
telIigence was indicated by shining pair
of eyeglasses, fell upon all-four ands be-
gan crawl into and under the bushes.
Chief Waddell and Sheriff ofley follow
ed suity-ywhile policemen Deaver and
Smith bravely held the fianks as if fear
full the corpse would arise and endeavor
to escape. Several circuits within that
territory were made by the crawling
ferrets ofthe law, close behind the afore-
said eye glassed informant, and, to Chief
Waddell specially it seemed several
square miles of territory had been cover
ed. Finally Mr.. Waddell asked the in
| formant where the body was, and the fol-
loving exhilerating dialogue engued:
Informant: "He is here some-ers, [
smell him."
Chief: Il thought you told me you
had seen the body"
Informant: $50 I did-in the cup
Chief: In the cup-why what sort of
cup?"
Informant: "wny the coGee-cup. I
turned it up this morning and saw the
body of this murdered man in this brush,
plainly. It's about here somewhere"
Words cannot paint the deliberate
solemnity with which the officers gather
ed themselves together and marched
back to headquarters, and it was onl!
through the exercies of the highest
Christian virtues.and self.control Of these
officers that horribly mangled body was
not then and there displayed, calling
loudly for the services of a coroner
Sheriff Worley says he never sees the
bottom of any other kind of a cup save
coffee cup, but he never heard before that
the mangled body of a corpse could be
packed away in such place. The cloth
ing is still at police headquarters, and,
remains mystery.